I attended the commissioners’ Sept. 13 meeting about the idea of having the county getting involved in repairing and maintaining a section of the private Camp 20 Road at the end of County Road 70. Along with an estimated 50 out of 54 landowners present, my extended family and I oppose the idea of bringing in the county to improve and maintain what is a private road.
My family is also concerned about the process, which has been flawed in several ways:
1) Not all landowners were notified about the commissioners’ meeting at 9:45 last Tuesday, Sept. 13. We’re still waiting for any official notice.
2) At the meeting on the 13th we were informed that this couldn’t be the official meeting, since legal notification in the paper wasn’t done. So another meeting will be held two weeks hence when many summer residents can’t attend; five of the seven in my extended family cannot attend that newly scheduled meeting.
3) The petition that led to this initial meeting is different from the one that some landowners signed last spring. A number of those who had signed rescinded their support on the 13th. Indeed, the person who said he initiated the petition last April said he no longer supports this new version.
4) When I checked the website of the board of commissioners to get a report on that meeting of the 13th,
I found a list of comments made. To my surprise, the list included people I didn’t see there and omitted lots of names /comments of folks who did speak up. Maybe some or all of the comments were from people who had written in, but that doesn’t explain why many others were not included.
I hope the rest of the discussion about this issue pays all due attention to the people who live on that private road and listens to comments from the meeting on the 13th. Given the vast majority opposed to county involvement on the private road, the issue should be easily put to rest. Resident-owners should be free to consider other ways to deal with their private road.
Mary (Hong) Loe
Hovland
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